CT 53, 558 (P313970)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 558 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313970 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] 1'1'– | [On the ...th] da[y ...] it rai[ned] extremely heav[ily] in the ci[ty ...]. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | The k[ing, my lord], can [be glad]. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | ⸢UD⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ina {⸢uru⸣}[x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 3' | ⸢ma⸣-aʾ-⸢da⸣ [a—dan-niš] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢i⸣-zu-[nu-un] | |
| 2 | ŠA₃-bu ša\d ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣-[u DUG₃.GA o] | |
Sources & licences
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- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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